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NEW! Introducing original curriculum from the Center of Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. This comprehesive manual provides educators with innovative and interactive lesson plans to be utilized either individually or as an entire unit. This resource is designed for upper elementary students and complements the Once Upon a Tide film.
Download the Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans Curriculum Manual
*For best viewing, please download using Adobe Reader or Acrobat
Download Supplemental Materials to the Curriculum Manual:
Lesson 8 Worksheet (student)
Lesson 8 Worksheet (key)
Lesson 12 Ebisu Slide Show
Lesson 12 Arts and Crafts Slide Show
Lesson 12 Seafood Slide Show
NEW! Watch a lecture by Executive Producer Kathleeen Frith on how the ocean heals, nourishes and sustains us.
The following resources address how the ocean heals, sustains and nourishes humans.
For Grades K-3
Marine Stewardship Council: Fish & Kids
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Unifying Concepts and Processes
- Systems, order and organization (food chain, ecological relationships in the ocean)
- Life Science
- Organisms and their environments (how humans alter environments for fish)
- Science in personal and social perspectives
- Types of resources
- changes in environments
For Grades K-4
Once Upon a Tide Student Worksheet
Once Upon a Tide Educator Worksheet
For Grades 3-5
National Geographic: Taking Care of Our Oceans
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Science in personal and social perspectives:
- characteristics and changes in populations
- changes in environments
National Geographic: The Ocean and Human Medicine
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Unifying Concepts and Processes
- Form and function (what is the function, for the organism, of the chemical that we extract from the organism to make drugs?)
- Life Science
- The characteristics of organisms (in this case, the marine species that provide sources of drugs)
- Science in personal and social perspectives
- Types of Resources (considering ocean as a resource for human health)
Canadian Council for Geographic Education: Our Changing Planet: Oceans, Land, and People
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Science in personal and social perspectives:
- characteristics and changes in populations
For Grades 4-5
National Geographic: Using Photography to Help Save the Oceans
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Science and technology:
- Ability to communicate a problem, design, and solution (through the activity itself)
- Understanding about science and technology: in particular, understanding that tools help scientists make better observations and measurements. In this case, cameras (tools) allow scientists to make meaningful observations (about the ocean).
- Science in personal and social perspectives:
National Marine Sanctuaries: Game of Life
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Life Science
- Regulation and Behavior
- Populations and Ecosystems
- Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Populations, Resources, and Environments
- Natural and Human-induced Hazards
KiDSNET: Precious, Threatened Oceans
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Life Science
- Organisms and their environments (how humans alter environments for fish)
- Science in personal and social perspectives
- Types of resources
- changes in environments
For Grades 4-6
Environmental Literacy's Council Sustainable Island Activity
National Geographic's Ocean for Life
For Grade 5
PBS: You Are What You Eat, Plastics and Marine Life
National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:
- Unifying Concepts and Processes
- Systems, order and organization
- Life Science
- Organisms and their environments (how plastics alter environments for fish)
- Science in personal and social perspectives
- Types of resources
- changes in environments
For Grades 5-7
Baltimore Aquariums Living in Water Series
National Geographic's Ocean for Life
National Marine Sanctuaries Educational Curriculum
For Grades 6-12
NOAA's Ocean Explorer
National Geographic's Ocean for Life
OceanWorld
CHGE's Ocean of Change
CHGE's Living Sea
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